Ash and Chanell (his wife) portray the events in this "documentary" as a true story based in reality. This could not be further from the truth.
The thinly veiled lie Ash is telling on film, in tears no less, doesn't make him a "great director", it makes him just another fraud within a community already rife with frauds attempting to capitalize off of "believers".
There's a scene where Sean Miller and his wife are outside their house at night, approaching a side door, and you can hear a few knocks at the door. There's a painfully obvious CGI version of a ghost edited into the movie, that knocks on the door and then runs off into the back yard. It's incredibly cheesy.
Sean Miller's sister & her husband (Drew) show up for a bbq, and there's a scene where Drew approaches a figure standing still out in the middle of a corn field. The whole scene is a crock of baloney, 1) Drew is a horrible, disaster of an actor, 2) Drew gets impregnated by the 'figure' in the cornfield, 3) Drew starts acting like a feral animal, spewing up warm dark chocolate all over Ash, 4) they couldn't call an ambulance because "Drew has a warrant", 5) Drew and his wife just vanish out of the plotline, no follow up to an obvious "alien encounter", no further discussion about it, etc. If this really happened, it would've been National News.
There's a scene where Ash is awoken in the middle of the night by 'strange noises', he gets up, starts recording and looks out the window - he sees an obvious person standing in the middle of the yard, arms outstretched like a zombie, and immediately starts running at the camera. Ash turns away and you hear stomping on the roof. Not once did Ash call 911, wake anyone up, or do anything about it. The whole event goes by and absolutely nothing is done about it. It's such bs.
There's a scene towards the end of the movie where Ash and Channell are about to leave Sean Miller's house, but woops they stayed too late and it's nighttime now. They see a light out in the middle of the corn field, so they run back inside....except Ash has to go outside and inspect. Ash grabs a camera and approaches the cornfield, to find a face-shaped light with a CGI face on it hiding behind a tree, sticking its head out from both sides...like a child would do. Ash freaks out, runs back inside, and no footage of what Ash captured is ever discussed or shown on film.
This is where they just shove the film over the cliff of BS mountain - Ash goes to extreme lengths to make himself look like an honest, generous and very humble person, he talks about "writing checks to people" to the people/families he's hurt but no one is accepting his money or taking his calls, he talks about how he can't tell people what truly happened because they wouldn't believe it, he even outright contradicts himself (Rick James' style) by talking how he couldn't release the documentary while at the same the only people taking his calls are people that want his documentary and he's constantly taking the blame for every little bad manufactured event.
The whole film just screams thirsty for attention with insulting undertones for making a "documentary" in the hopes people will buy it, and when called out on their BS, they simply point to the fact the movie is listed as a "horror movie". This is the most slimy type of film making, it's not entertaining and the whole premise is based on the hope the audience buys a seemingly delicious fruit, with an absolutely rotten & disgusting center. In other words, what we have here is regurgitated bait and switch on the community of "believers" - it will not stand.
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